Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Book Review : When She Smiled

When She Smiled -Ritoban Chakrabarti

Mrityunjoy
Roy is a fifteen year old Bengali who has spent the last ten years of his life
growing up in Shimla. While his family is completely academically oriented, he
wants something more.
Finally he meets Akanksha in school, who turns his world upside down with her
gorgeous looks and mind boggling smile.

“Love” – Main crunch of the story. Have
read many stories where two people from complete opposite background met, fall
in love, had differences but then married and stayed together. But “When she
smiled “was different.

I liked the way author has described
the two individual, Roy – a very honest guy with lots of family pressure to become
big enough and worth-while in life, to score big in life whether academic or
sports. On other hand Akansha is easy going girl.

With two different backgrounds, both
of them meet each other and fall in love. The chemistry between them is
described very nicely. It’s beautiful, yet simple and also funny at times. At
many instances you can also visualize you with your special one.

Love story, the crush in school days
was something very unusual then the other love stories I have read which are
normally in college, work place.

The other beauty of the story was the
location. Shimla the best scenic of nature and this beauty you can feel while
reading the book.

After the happy go lucky phase,
author has written about how due to certain dramatic events they split apart to
two extreme poles. Agree this phase was little sad, but somehow it feels so
real and so true.

The
end of the story is also nicely framed.

At certain points I also felt little
bore, where just for one description author has made a one full paragraph.